diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index 84b3c8f96..d7a935fc1 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -2808,7 +2808,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.embd_normalize = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DEBUG}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DEBUG}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--embd-output-format"}, "FORMAT",
         "empty = default, \"array\" = [[],[]...], \"json\" = openai style, \"json+\" = same \"json\" + cosine similarity matrix, \"raw\" = plain whitespace-delimited output (one embedding per line)",
diff --git a/tools/server/server-context.cpp b/tools/server/server-context.cpp
index 4d162f81d..1ce7f0958 100644
--- a/tools/server/server-context.cpp
+++ b/tools/server/server-context.cpp
@@ -4527,7 +4527,7 @@ std::unique_ptr<server_res_generator> server_routes::handle_embeddings_impl(cons
         }
     }
 
-    int embd_normalize = 2; // default to Euclidean/L2 norm
+    int embd_normalize = params.embd_normalize;
     if (body.count("embd_normalize") != 0) {
         embd_normalize = body.at("embd_normalize");
         if (meta->pooling_type == LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_NONE) {